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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 26 Nov 1936, p. 30

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Vera Brodsky and Harold Triggs, who have ,won recognition bere and abroad as a two-piano teani and as solo artists, wrill give the se-ond cÔcert of the Artist Recital series in New Trier High school auditorium. Monday eveiing,, December, 7. Sponsored bY the arist recital committee of thé Winnetka Music club,.the seri es will present, later in the season, Marian Anderson, negrocontralto;, Albert Spallding, ,Amr,àican violinist, and :Myra Hess, IEnglish pianist. .Lautritz Melchior, Danish tenor of the Metropolitan 0,pera company , openied the series last month. I the past two years this tWo-piano team has played together on thé air, with symphony orchestras, and in recital. Both were pupils in America .of Josef Lhevinne, but were going their separate ways unitil they met ini Europe at one of the Saîzburg festivals. Miss, Brodsky had just played at Mondscee nearby for the former Crown Prince of Germaniy. Pellow Americans,, they discÜssed their homeland ' music,, and two piano arrangements, and- thereupon began a partnership. A spécial effort lias been put forth by theni to work eut plans for intreducing the work of young ompoi.nrs, oge4tig muaicians out of ~Amercrae, the rut of exclusively classical performances. "We are flot forsaking the. classics by any means," Miss Brodsky said. "We just feit there was newer mnusic which should be giveri 'its chance, toQ, if music is te be sustained and extended." Abrami Chasins, Dana Suesse and Aaron Copland are three young American conipesers who have recently achieved recognitien and whose works will appear on their program. is the Evidence of their interest in the classics rAnid. mu ..* J. T). Tolof Photo -InternatIonat Pla-Gôikii" zvilt be the tudject of the lecture zuhich Harold A. Ehren* .perger of Evanston, ait autkority oit plays and the theatre, will present for the program of the Drama Club of IEvanston at the meeting to be held Thursday «f fernoon; December 3, at 2:30 o'clock at the Evanston Woman's clb .. A-t r;no.: .n. .ê,Qn R. November 15, Winnetka 'Conîmuiity House celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. No finer expression of the vital force of that institution. on the north shore could be desired than the fait 'exhi bition of the NorthShore Art league,, Whicb ,was a part of the anniversary celebration. The exhibition opcned at C ommunity. Hquse the, aftenoonof the celebration, and was followed, last Sunday, by an exhibition tea for friends and niew members. The pictures, willt remain on the wails for two weeks. The scope of.the exkhibit, fllling two large rooms and overflowing into- the corridors, was no more impressive thaný the increasingly fine quality of the pictures and the sculpturinfg, ani the many samples of. work. from the children 's classes. It is plain to see that an energizing sortething is at work pumping life and inspiration into the -productix~ity of the organization, and what is more, natural than te attributé the change, at least, in large part, to ýthe- heavy schedule of art' classes conducted under the. sponsorship1 of th.e Ieàgue? Common interests, stimulating interchange of ideas, as well as technical instruction, appear to be fostering witbin these classes a newer and fresher art. To attempt to point ouit the significant entries ,in a show of this magnitude, in one brief news <article, would only get the commentator into bot water. An hour's conversation would bardly do justice to the show. However, 1 cannot refrain* from saying just a few things. Appropriate to the time of year are a dozen or more 1936 autumn landscapes '~what no fait ex-. hibition shouid ever be without. Artists neyer tire of painting the seasons of the year-Octciber great Johann Sebastian. It dated back .more than cpe a century. opeswere rmade; information Photostatic checked; undoubtedly this concerto had neyer been played ini this country. It will be first introduced to a midWest audience, when Brodsky and, Triggs play in Winnetka on December 7. Opening witb a penderous and melancholy theme, the piece assumes an ecclesiastic spiendor not unlike the musicof bis father, and ends with the original theme. playing. of Liszt's "1-ungarian i<antasy," inithe first Young People's concert of the Chicago Sym~pbony orchestra under tbe direction cf Dr. Frederick Stock, will open Mr. Knupfers recital series next Sunday, November 29, at the Little theater of De Paul university school of music, 64 East Lake street, Chicago. The main feature of bis program will be Schumann's "Phantasy Pieces," Opus 12, and Debussy's "Children's Corner," a set of several characteristic pieces. entitled "~Dr. GraA. .1 D.,..,.,..rn - T Tiillablv" "Srenaide source of vnjoyment., The sculpturing in league exhibitions is fôrging into greater and greater' prorninence with each show, until it can no longer be mentioned among the minority ranks at tbe end of a long list of exliibitors. It deserves first consideration. Helen Mathias, lune Heyda, Mrs. Perry Crawford, Mrs. H. C. Edmonds, and E. M-,ainville, along with others offer some admirabe bumaii figures, and animal studies. Mrs, joseph Shippen mizbt-be mentioned amonig I nia 5peech Airts association. Vuunng the Century of Prcgress in Chicago in, 1933, he was chosen as the speaker foôr the observance of Drama Day.' MNac1Gowai western ui tien. vs nt of the orgal lhïlricIc, Jane t'hilbrick, Gordon Hannah, Mirs. VanFi F. Helen Hare.-J. ýtKeith, Jean Jtune [ax' Gundlacb, Friehermne Ogren, Allen ices Bowmani, Mrs, agenen Alling, and

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